Marc Andreessen
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American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
OverviewAI-generated
Marc Andreessen is a male person associated with the audio drama genre in Germany. He is the author of the work *Techno-Optimist Manifesto*. While Open Library lists zero works for him, Crossref records five. His official blog is hosted at blog.pmarca.com.
Andreessen has been referenced by 1,186 other encyclopedia articles. He has 1,194,558 social media followers. On Last.fm, his music has 65 listeners and a total playcount of 477. Wikiquote attributes several statements to him, including "Software is eating the world" and "Anti-colonialism has been economically catastrophic for the Indian people for decades. Why stop now?"
Synthesized by Vinony from 18 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 0
Top works
- Techno-Optimist Manifesto
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1974-01-28
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 65
- Total plays
- 477
Marc Andreessen is a prominent Silicon Valley entrepreneur, investor, and technologist and the cofounder and general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Marc+Andreessen">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data
· 2014 · cited 61,948x
- MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space
· 2012 · cited 24,647x
- Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
· 2015 · cited 23,765x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,617x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,787x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “[Netscape will soon reduce Windows to] a poorly debugged set of device drivers.”
- “Software is eating the world”
- “Anti-colonialism has been economically catastrophic for the Indian people for decades. Why stop now?”
- “The Ancient City by Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges -- the single best book I have found on who we are and how we got here.”
- “The two premodern religions were ancestor worship and nature worship (see "The Ancient City" by Fustel de Coulanges). The two postmodern religions are evidently identitarianism and environmentalism. Is this a coincidence, or something deeper?”
- “I'm glad there's OxyContin and video games to keep those people quiet.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Marc Lowell Andreessen , ( 1971-07-09 ) July 9, 1971 (age 54) , Cedar Falls, Iowa , U.S.
- Education
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ( BS )
- Occupations
- Investor entrepreneur software engineer
- Known for
- Mosaic Netscape Opsware Andreessen Horowitz
- Spouse
- Laura Arrillaga ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2006 )
- Children
- John
- Relatives
- John Arrillaga (father-in-law)
- Website
- a16z .com /author /marc-andreessen
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Marc Lowell Andreessen (/ænˈdriːsən/ an-DREE-sən; born July 9, 1971) is an American businessman, venture capitalist, and former software engineer. He is the co-author of Mosaic, the first web browser to display inline images; co-founder of Netscape; and co-founder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He co-founded and later sold the software company Opsware to Hewlett-Packard; he also co-founded Ning, a company that provides a platform for social networking websites. In 2024 he became an advisor to Donald Trump. Andreessen's net worth is estimated at $1.9 billion as of January 2025.
Early life and education
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Marc Andreessen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.